From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010323 BuildID: 2001032319 When a local file URL is followed but not found, Mozilla mysteriously does nothing. Other browsers put up a "file not found" confirmation dialog. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. File | Open Web Location 2. file://c:/nonexistent.html (or appropriate path for your platform) Actual Results: The dialog goes away and nothing else happens. Expected Results: Some indication that the file was not found. Both IE5 and NN4.7 pop up an error dialog when a local file URL is not found. (Maybe Mozilla is expecting the server to return an error page, but there is none... :) I originally ran into the problem from a bookmark to a local file which no longer existed, so it is not only a problem with the dialog. The "file not found" message should apply whenever a local file URL is opened.

dup of bug 76434 "local file needs to give error message when file not found"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19073 ***

REOPEN: really a dupe of bug 63048 (b/c I it is fixed in Mozilla 0.9.5 per dougt's comments about trunk fixing after 0.9.4 branch).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63048 ***

VERIFIED: file: URL cleanup.